LITFL Review 197
Welcome to the 197th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest, and deliver a bite-sized chunk of Global FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Want to hear a specific article critically appraised? Submit your picks to The SGEM using their superb Hot or Not process, a fantastic new FOAMed feature. [SL]
A superb new resource collating intensive care case series, with evidenced-based answers to really useful clinical questions: icmcasesummaries.com. [SL]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog discusses the short differential diagnosis list for a large R wave in V1. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Anton Helman welcomes Rich Levitan, Andy Sloas and David Barbic to discuss the management of the critically ill obese patient. [AS]
- Chris Hicks discusses the 10 Commandments of Trauma Resusc on REBEL EM. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- Core EM reviews hyperinsulinemia-euglycemia therapy in the treatment of calcium channel blocker overdose. [AS]
- If you missed last week’s News from the Fast Lane: the LITFL team has developed the Toxicology Library! Check it all out here. [ML]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- The US of the Week blog highlights a case of necrotizing fasciitis rapidly identified by POCUS. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Don’t Forget the Bubbles has teamed up with APLS to release the videos from the 2013 and 2014 Paediatric Acute Care Conference, online and freely available; after this year’s conference in October, the videos from 2015 are promised to appear online as well. Their first video is Gary Williams on Emerging Viral Infections. [TRD]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- As the folks at Louisville Lectures are still on summer break, you have time to catch up on the specialty list of Grand Rounds-type lectures online posted over the past year. [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- The Skeptics Guide to EM (SGEM) goes global with new podcasts in French, Spanish and Portugese. [AS]
LITFL Weekly Review Team
LITFL RV brought to you by:
- Anand Swaminathan [AS] (EM:RAP, Core EM,REBEL EM and The Teaching Institute)
- Andrew J. Bowman [AJB]
- Bruno Tomazini [BT] (ICURevisited)
- Chris Connolly [CC] (RCEMFOAMed, FOAMShED)
- Chris Nickson [CN] (RAGE, INTENSIVE and SMACC)
- Cian McDermott [CMD] (POCUS Geelong, SMACC)
- Craig Wylie [CW] (BadEM)
- Jeffrey Shih [JSh](ALiEM)
- Luke Phillips [LP] (POCUS Geelong)
- Manpreet ‘Manny’ Singh [MMS] (emDOCs.net)
- Marjorie Lazoff [ML] (TandemHealth)
- Mat Goebel [MG]
- Matt Siuba [MS]
- Philippe Rola [PR] (Thinkingcriticalcare)
- Rick Pescatore [RP] (EM News UC:RAP)
- Sarah Newman [SN]
- Salim Rezaie [SR] (REBEL EM, The Teaching Institute)
- Segun Olusanya [SO] (JICSCast, The Bottom Line)
- Thomas C. Neal [TCN] (PulmCCM)
Reference Sources and Reading List
LITFL Review
#FOAMed Updates
Marjorie Lazoff, MD FACP. Board certified internist with clinical background in academic emergency medicine, currently the founder of The Healing Red Pen, an editorial consulting company. Dr Lazoff is a full-time editor and strong supporter of FOAMed.